Hands Off, My Loots!

Well, I’ve been off quite a bit due to the Holidays…haven’t gotten any time in recently to work on my security status, so it is still sitting at -7.5…good ways to go before I can get back to Dodixie and Ninja it up with the rest of the family.

I’ve got at least 3 decent posts in the works that I’m still working the kinks out of, so look forward to those in the near future…but for this post…I figured I’d do what’s customary for this time of year…Resolutions for the upcoming set of 365 days!

1. Become a sort of diplomat for the Ninjas…and talk with some 0.0 Alliances to possibly work out some blue standings to work on sec status in relative safety for some major hi-sec ganking opportunities.  People have been bitching about being killed enough lately that i figure we need to step up our game…these are epic tears just waiting to be captured!
2. Break 10 Billion ISK in networth…who can’t use more ISK?
3. Get my learning skills done (almost there actually…yay!)
4. Piss some people off, and listen to them whine

All in all, pretty simple set of resolutions for now…I’m easy like that and prefer not to set any goals that might let me down too quickly!

So, Happy New Year!  And may the Tears flow!

Just a quick update.  I’m still out here in 0.0 Ratting my Security Status up.  It’s a slow process…made even slower by the fact that I’m normally too lazy to do it right.  For people that are in a hurry to get their Security Status up, the best technique is to kill one battleship rat and then move to a new system and do the same, over and over.  After 15 minutes you can return to the first system and do it all over again.

This is the best way because you only get a Security Status increase once every 15 minutes per system…so if you go to different systems you can get more than one increase in 15 minutes.

Me?  I’m lazy, and playing it safe.  I don’t feel like losing my ship/pod at the moment to a gate camp…and I can’t be arsed to scout for myself at the moment either…so I’ve just been chilling in one system ratting.  Sure, I’m not gaining Security Status as fast as I’d like…but on the bright side, I’m making more ISK than I would be if I was just killing one Rat per system…since I can farm the belt rat battleships.

Up to -7.88, from -9.94…so I’m getting there slowly but surely.

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In other news, it seems that no matter where I go I can’t help but be a smart ass…this short log is from yesterday while me and another Ninja (who kindly came to keep me company..thanks man!) were ratting and needed to relieve a little boredom.

We played with the guy for at least an hour…he would come in a Cheetah, scan us down, warp out to grab his Vagabond, then a Sabre.  He sling bubbled a gate, and the station trying to get us.  I was cloaked so I let him scan down Onilan in his Rifter so we could move safespots just to annoy him.

After about an hour he called in a friend…and since it was late already, I called it a night when he decided he didn’t wanna have any more fun…lol

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Channel Name:    Local
Listener:        Cyberin
Session started: 2009.12.22 00:52:18
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[ 2009.12.22 01:51:49 ] Marcus Quo > pepper jack LOVE fraggle rock
[ 2009.12.22 01:51:58 ] Cyberin >
[ 2009.12.22 03:03:10 ] EVE System > Channel changed to —– Local Channel
[ 2009.12.22 03:16:43 ] EVE System > Channel changed to —– Local Channel
[ 2009.12.22 03:40:31 ] Cyberin > /emote waves his hand
[ 2009.12.22 03:40:36 ] Cyberin > These are not the Ninjas you are looking for
[ 2009.12.22 03:46:37 ] Cyberin > o/ i see you are back
[ 2009.12.22 03:59:58 ] Onilan > TAG, yer it!
[ 2009.12.22 04:00:25 ] Cyberin > you didn’t really think we were that dumb did you?
[ 2009.12.22 04:00:29 ] Cyberin > we are NINJAS!!!
[ 2009.12.22 04:00:39 ] Namamai > your endless pratter in local led me to suspect that, yes ;p
[ 2009.12.22 04:00:54 ] Cyberin > boredom does that to people
[ 2009.12.22 04:01:08 ] Cyberin > though, i can hardly classify 2 lines as ‘endless pratter’

oh, by the way…Pepper Jack is the name of my Wolf…the first person up there in the log seemed to like that name

Stay tuned for the next episode where Cyberin makes a single ship conga line and shoots rockets at helpless asteroids!

Yargok, over at Wherever I May Roam, made an interesting post a few days ago about explaining your real life job in EVE Terms.  I thought it would be an interesting thing to do…so here goes.

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In real life, I’m an Air Traffic Controller for the United States Air Force…and I love my job!  So, I guess in EVE that would equate to being a Docking Controller for one of the major faction military stations.

My day would start by a screaching alarm clock going off, and subsequently me rolling over my wife and clicking the snooze button…twice.  18 Minutes after it went off the first time I’d finally get up, meander into the bathroom to do the “Three S’s” (plus brushing the teeth), walk into the kitchen and debate what I want for breakfast…then say screw it and go check my market orders to see how many people have 0.01isked me overnight.

While I’m updating my trades and looking over the days skill queue I’ll also be putting on my boots, making sure my Neocom is charged, and wishing I had of actually eaten something for breakfast as I run out the door…3 minutes after I was planning on being gone.  It’s all good though, as long as I rush through the crowd a bit I’ll get to work on time (which…on time happens to be 10 minutes before I’m required to be there…which is actually 15 minutes before my shift starts…so I’ll never actually be late…yet I rush anyway).

Either the elevator is broken, or I can hear someone giggling 9 floors above me as I open the elevator door to the rotten smell of freshly ripped ass…either way, I’ll probably run up the 9 flights of stairs leading to the large glass room overlooking the massive docking bay entrance to the station.  Then I’ll run back down them, grab the Neocom out of my locker since I forgot to grab it out of my bag before I ran up, and head on up again.  The Neocom is a must since it is mostly likely going to be a boring day of watching space turn black…so I’ll need to play some Tower Defense games while I hope beyond hope that some Rookie Pilot in an Ibis will decide to do a few laps around the station.

5 Hours later, after not talking to a soul all day…the Emergency Frequency cracks to life as a Pod Pilot has declared an Emergency and requests priority to dock as one of his engines shut off due to an oil pressure loss.  Mind you, this Pilot is fine, his ship has another 30 or so engines…and only 2 of them are needed to push his ships mass along at any speed he should require…but since he’s just another whining Pod Pilot we’ll humor him, call out the Fire, Medical, and Docking Maintenance Control (who knows…he may nick the docking bay as he comes in…gotta make sure it’s good to go before we let anyone else dock)…and ring out the Crash Net so everyone knows what is going on.

10 minutes later, Mr. Whining Pod Pilot is docked safe, and I am laughing at the excessive amount of paperwork he’ll undoubtedly be filling out for the next few hours simply because he wanted ‘traffic priority’…even though there was no one else in sight for Hundreds of Kilometers.  I then un-pause my Tower Defense game and finish “that one level”…for the hundredth time.

That last hour of the work day is the worst..I know the next shift is coming to relieve me soon, but I swear…wasn’t there 40 minutes left like…3 hours ago?  Has time stopped?…I swear it has!  Finally, just as I’m about to open the emergency air lock and toss myself out into the cold vastness of space, I see the first of them start to shuffle in downstairs (I love that little security camera).

I quickly let the Watch Supervisor know I need to use the restroom…and I run down to the floor below…open the Elevator that I called up earlier this morning…rip some ass, and then giggle as I send it down to pick the next crew up while I walk back up to the “office”.

In they walk with sour looks on their faces asking who the joker was.  Me and the Sup both point at the Trainee that’s been sitting there all day doing nothing since there is no traffic for him to learn off of.  We all give our relief crew a briefing on the extremely busy time we’ve been having watching the stars twinkle…and then I head off back to home, thankful that I have a Swing shift tomorrow and get to sleep in late.

First off, I’d just like to mention that although I haven’t been able to get any of the new juicy Zephyr kills myself due to being in 0.0 at the moment, Suddenly Ninjas are up to I believe 15 or so kills.  We have a corp contest going with about 350mil in ISK/Prizes for the top 3 Zephyr killers…they guys are having a blast!

Oh, and speaking of the Ninjas…I have a new title…I do believe it is something along the lines of “Cyberin, Director of Personnel Recruitment”!  That’s right…I’ve been back for 2-3 days and I’ve been promoted to Director.  As you can tell from the title…I’ll be in charge of recruitment for the Ninjas…which, I’ve been wanting to do for quite some time actually.  I may not have known it until very recently…but Suddenly Ninjas is where I belong…and I’m very happy to be able to give back to this fine group of bastards in any way that I can.  Plus…I’ve been told I have a way with words so I can most assuredly trick, I mean, recruit many a good Ninja for the future!

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I’ve got my security status to under -9 now, sadly…only -8.91 I think…so I still have a LONG way to go.  I would be a lot further, but I haven’t actually gotten much time to undock this past week to work on it.  Early in the week I was busy working on getting some other website stuff I’ve got going done, and then mid-week I was having lag issues so I was scared to undock with 500 Mil ISK in my head in 0.0.  Then Friday when I came home from work my Cable Modem had died so I had to wait until this morning for the Cable Repair Guy to bring me a new one.

Then of course today is my Anniversary (6 years…I love you Babe!  Even if you didn’t let me play much EVE today…what’s up with that? :p)…so…not much play time there.

Tomorrow I get the morning at home to myself though, at which point I’ll get my alt back to where I am as a scout so I can continue pewing these dirty Serpentis Rats so I can get back home to Dodixie…many fun times ahead!

Everyone is talking about it, so I might as well too.  CCP Wrangler announced today that CCP will be giving out a special ship for Christmas to all those with an active account (non-trial).  The ship is the Zephyr, and if I see you in it…and I have sec status to spare after I finish getting it high enough to get back into highsec…I will blow you up.

You have been warned!